On Monday 12 March 2007, Douglas McNaught wrote: >Gene Heskett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I'd considered it, but with 32 dle entries, the whole strace output >> would be terrabytes & I don't have THAT much disk. Not to mention it >> traces only the parent process, so tar would be merrily marching along >> to its own drummer and not traced I'm afraid. > >$ strace -ff > >-Doug
Someone else suggested the single -f, and I tried that, but even with the shell history set for 100,000 lines, i can't get back to the start, and I think its mucking with the shell arguments numbering as what I can see is about 5 reads through /etc/services accompanied by endless complaints of -EBADFD, the the logfile it generates says the port it was given was rejected when amcheck was run, here is that snip: running /usr/local/sbin//amcheck Daily Amanda Tape Server Host Check ----------------------------- Holding disk /dumps: 72597 MB disk space available, using 72097 MB slot 5: read label `Dailys-5', date `20070223002502' NOTE: skipping tape-writable test Tape Dailys-5 label ok Server check took 4.556 seconds Amanda Backup Client Hosts Check -------------------------------- WARNING: coyote: selfcheck request failed: unable to bind to a reserved port (got port 32789) Client check: 1 host checked in 34.733 seconds, 1 problem found (brought to you by Amanda 2.5.1p3-20070222) ------------------eofsnip------------ The script quit by request shortly after as I didn't want it to further dirty the amanda database system. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Safety Third. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/